European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                No damage wednesday. August 15, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 a a injuries Homer Alaska a a moderately Strong earthquake Shook the Kenai Peninsula Southwest of Anchorage on monday knocking objects from store shelves and rattling residents 400 Miles away authorities said. The quake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale according to the tsunami warning Center in Palmer and the Alaska earthquake information Center in Fairbanks. A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing considerable local damage in the right conditions. However officials in Kenai and Homer a City of 2,200 on the Cook Inlet Southwest of Seward said there were no reports of damage or injuries. A everything was dancing a it Felt like the roof was coming in a said fran Skaggs who works at ulmers Rexall drugs store in Homer. A there were quite a few things falling off the shelves a Skaggs said. A a we did no to lose anything a there a just a Tew piles of things Here and there that need to be cleaned  the quake at 3 04 ., was entered Between Homer and Ninilchik a town 75 Miles West of Seward said Charlotte Rowe a seismologist at the earthquake information Center. The area a a popular vacation spot 110 Miles from Anchorage a is one of the More populous parts of the sparsely settled state. It was Felt strongly in Anchorage and also in Fairbanks 400 Miles to the North. The National earthquake information service in Golden colo., gave the quake a Richter Reading of 5.3, said spokeswoman Pat Jorgensen. Dispatcher Sam Brown of the Kenai police depart mint said she Hadnot received any Calls about the earthquake. A we Felt a big Jolt and things started shaking pretty Good a she said. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area 4 moderate damage 5 considerable damage and 6 severe damage a 7 Reading is a a a major earthquake capable of widespread heavy damage 8 is a a a great quake capable of tremendous damage. Acle challenges ban of 2 live grew album Columbia s c. Apr the american civil liberties Union filed suit monday challenging a sales ban on a was Nasty As they Wanna be a the album by the rap group 2 live Crew the suit asks for a prohibition on arrests for Selling the album. It also asks a judge to decide whether the album is obscene. Richland county prosecutor Jim Anders who in june threatened Toj prosecute those Selling the album is named As the defendant. Three record stores have joined the Acle As plaintiffs said Steve Bates executive director for the South Carolina Acle. Bates said the record a has significant literary artistic and political values that reflect the african and afro american heritage of a Large segment of our  Bates acknowledged that 2 live Crews use of raw and sometimes violent sexual imagery in songs like a me so Homyn made it a Tough to argue  by South Carolina standards Anders said the album is obscene. The Acle is a group that wants a anything to go a he said. Office workers by the thousands walk across the Brooklyn Bridge after the Power outage in the financial District. Fire cuts Power shuts Down new York apr an electrical fire knocked out Power to the skyscrapers of Manhattan s financial District mom Fay disrupting Stock trading stranding people in elevators and sending thousands Home Early through traffic snarled streets. The midday Cable fire at a consolidated Edison substation spewed plumes of Black acrid smoke Over the Southern tip of Manhattan workers poured out of buildings like the world Trade Center and South Street seaport in search of pay phones and Cool drinks. Many subway lines and commuter tunnels were stalled or shut Down. Thousands walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Rush hour ferry service began Early. The outage affected 4,150 customers mostly businesses employing tens possibly hundreds of in do Sands of e employees. Con Edison issued an emergency plea to Cut Energy use worried about a possible overload that could Knock out additional networks. The Utility restored Power to about three quarters of the affected area by 5  By re routing current through other substations. Pedestrian traffic overflowed from the sidewalk onto the Street which was clogged with buses and taxis. With traffic lights Cut off police directed traffic by hand. A a it a not going to be a smooth Rush hour a said transit authority spokesman Jared Lebow. The new York Stock Exchange was unaffected by the outage spokesman Ray Pellechia said. But the american Stock Exchange new York mercantile Exchange and commodity Exchange All halted trading for the Day at i  Hundreds of people were stuck in elevators at the world Trade Center for up to 2vi hours said d. Joy Faber a spokeswoman for the port authority which operates the 110-Story twin skyscrapers the tallest buildings in he City. Quot my legs Are buckling i feel so sore Quot Secretary Ethel Levine said after walking Down 33 floors. Steve and Carol Holett. Visiting from los Angeles were on the 36th boor of i world Trade Center when the lights began blinking and then went off for Good. They decided to Wallk Down because they did no to want to spend their Only Day in town in an office. William Unroch stuck inside his High Rise Home at Battery Park City was not As Lucky. A a it a horrible Here. All the Gas is off the water is off everything is off. Pm trapped Here on the 35th floor. I can to get out of my apartment. Id have to walk Down 35  others made the Best of the situation. A a it a the first time i be walked across the Bridge. Its pretty Nice a said Joseph Eckart an insurance company employee who strolled the Brooklyn Span that crosses the East River holding hands with his Girlfriend Angela Rizzica. A we feel like its seventh Grade and we be gotten a Day off a said Engineer John Gratten. The fire at con eds seaport substation on front Street was reported at i 1 50 . And escalated to a four alarm lire by 3 ., said fire department spokeswoman Joe Mcgee. It was declared under control at 5 25  The cause Wasny to known Mcgee  fire threatens 1,600 Homes in California red Bluff Calif. Apr one raging Forest fire threatened about 1,600 Homes monday in Northern California and three major blazes remained out of control in Yosemite National Park. About 1,200 soldiers from the army a 9th inf div at fort Lewis wash., shipped out monday to help fight fires near Burns ore., said maj. John Lundberg. An estimated 1,200 army soldiers from the 4th inf div at fort Carson colo., were expected to arrive tuesday in Northern California. Fourteen major fires and several smaller ones burned across California on monday. The biggest tire a the Caine Bell Complex in Tehama county a had charred about 114,000 acres officials said. But firefighters top priority was a smaller Tehama county fire the 17,500-acre Finley Lake fire East of red Bluff which threatened 400 Homes in the town of Manton 200 in Mineral and an additional 1,000 in the general area officials said. Firefighters worked monday to create a 2-mile-Long line in Manton burning out a Swath they hoped would counter the northbound fire and keep it from destroying several Homes. The fire also was nearing Lassen National Forest near Mineral and Lassen volcanic National Park to the North. Farther South in the Sierra Nevada Range three major fires still raged monday in Yosemite National Park where an estimated 17,000 acres had been charred. Flames in the Park were within two Miles of Merced Grove a stand of giant Sequoia Trees up to 2,000 years old and also within two Miles of the Badger pass ski area the oldest ski resort in California. The Sequoias were treated with fire retardant but their thick bark usually protects them from fire allowing them to reach their advanced Ages. Flames were about 10 Miles from landmarks like i Capitan half dome and Yosemite Falls. Elsewhere in the West smaller fires burned in Oregon Alaska Washington Idaho and Utah. Firefighting in Northern California was hampered by an inversion layer a a layer of Cool air holding hot air Down a that held in smoke creating hot and Hay conditions. Air planes that bomb the fires with a mixture of tire retardant and fertilizer to encourage new growth were unable to Fly sunday or monday. Because of the thick smoke fire Oili vials had to bring in helicopters with infrared sensors to identify Quot hot spots a and map them for ground Crews